Ubisoft is one of the few companies that has been criticized for downgrading its titles. However, we are happy to report that For Honor has not been downgraded at all. The final build features some of the best visuals we’ve seen to date, and they are as good as those showcased in the recent E3 events.
Below you can find some comparison screenshots between the E3 2016 build (left) and the final build (right). As you can see, these two builds look identical, and there is no noticeable downgrade in the game’s visuals.
For this comparison we used an uncompressed high-quality video for the game’s E3 2016 demo. So while there are some artifacts that reduce the quality of the textures being displayed, we can compare all the other effects that were implemented in it.
As we can see, the final version of For Honor looks as good as its E3 2016 build. The only slight difference is that the E3 2016 build appears to have a stronger bloom effect. Apart from that, the builds are identical.
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hard to downgrade something that was not impressive to begin with
LOL its hard to disagree with what you said.
So, you basically agree.
Not 100% but i do agree basically.
I thought it looked rather nice. Not impressive, necessarily. But still nice.
It looks ok, I don’t think it’s super impressive as the article says. The single player specially has some ugly spots. It runs very well on the PC which might signal a nice change of habits for Ubi, finally. All in all it’s a good game.
This is a joke right?
Why? the photos from e3 look worse because of the stream compression
So you’re trying to say that compression magically disabled the reflections and clearly lowered the resolution of some textures?
no I’m saying they weren’t there in the first place during the E3 build
You clearly said that the stream compression caused photos from E3 to look worse.
It seems like Ubisoft has learned its lesson.
You mean learned what to expect out of the current gen hardware? Yes.
This tinfoil hat stuff is getting old.
They simply expected more out of the PS4 and XB1, as did I.
Yeah, and if the machines had been $500+ again, people still would have complained and/or not bought them. So, Microsoft and Sony couldn’t win for losing.
Tinfoil hat?! WTF are you talking about??? You don’t remember the PC version of Watch Dogs (among others) or are you just being willfully ignorant? Ubisoft has been the worst perpetrator in the industry.
also there is prey gameplay on youtube, looks good.
But does it run Crysis?
I’ve watched some gameplay on youtube recently. Actually seems fairly interesting if you’re fighters or third person action with a medieval / fantasy setting. When a skilled duel player comments on why he does what he does it seems fairly deep. Not Quake deep, but deep enough to be engaged as a viewer.
This is basically what Ryze could have been if Microsoft cared about gameplay.
its a beautiful game.
Yeah it’s good looking …
at this point Ubisoft can sell the fans a steaming pile of $hit disguised as a game and they’ll buy it regardless
i’ve played through the beta, tons of hosts disconnects and general lack of content was present as ever
a niche idea having vikings vs knights vs samurais
but with poor execution and terrible repetition i can’t see how anyone could considering buying it for full price
maybe for 10-20$ i’ed say go for IF it has a decent campaign
It’s clearly a multiplayer game, and the PVE stuff is fluff on top of the real key, duel. The game is for people who like Street Fighter or Tekken and want to try out something 3D, and for people who like Dark Souls PVP and want a game balanced around just that.
i like the instant dueling match-making
but it’s needs to be more hardcore
first off, get rid of the direction indicator
when you see a little warning telling you from what direction the blows are coming it isn’t very challanging
i think if they let us have a indicator Free duels it would be much more intense and much better overall, relying on visual feedback rather than a HUD element…
second off, the Grunts in multiplayer needs a solid buff, they feel useless
like movable scarecrows, their sole purpose is to soak damage from players
they need to change that
third and for most, get.some.f**king.servers
Peer2peer is utter $hite and it needs to die
Well, they kept going with AC until it got old
They attempted to milk far cry with primal (say what you wish but with the survival mode and that setting it is nice to have, not many primal games around)
They made watchdogs 2, it is better than the first, didnt sell much.
They fooled you with division.
Now they are making a coop far cry called wildlands
They turned rainbow six into counter strike with destructible walls and no recoil(people seem to like it though)
Now you get something “original” you dont like that either.
i’ve played Unity a month ago, that game was “decent”
for what it was (after it got patched, and i used a trainer to skip all the grind in order to obtain the sexy outfits)
as for Rainbow 6… kinda sad they trashed the campaign in order to make a “Esport Moba shooter”
and still uses peer2peer connection
i never bought the division, i knew right from the beta it was a trap (and a crappy trap at that, even a blind man could see it was another take on Destiny)
Far Cry primal was really a wasted oppertunity, a game full of grind
full of text based fetch quest, full of bosses who can handle 50 spears to the face
and of course, 90% of it’s content is filler
literally if you rush through the game without playing any of the useless filler you can finish it in a day
like all far cry games
filler and grind aside, i really loved the setting, i liked the game more than FC4 and FC4 was probably one of the few decent games of the accursed 2014
Ubisoft is dying.. they’re keep using the same old tricks, the same old games and formula’s under different coats of paint
yet their main source of income, rainbow six siege is slowly degrading and more people have stopped playing (all due to the servers being $hit)
For Honor will sell definitely, until people realize it’s dumbed down and the servers don’t work people will start saying $hit on this game
i personally use “worth a buy” on youtube and he already deemed this game a “consolized Chivlery” stating it’s very casualized with the indicator and doesn’t like that it’s a third person slasher (ruins the immersion) and he thumbed it down
Personally i think Ubisoft should pour their resources to assassin’s creed empire
if the sources are correct, a “witcher-like” gameplay with RPG elements and free roam in ancient Egypt is just the thing to revive the setting
assuming they don’t rush it.
Anyone tryed it ?
Finalized some textures and a reshade preset?
Ubisoft are pretty decent lately
Dang, for the first time, I actually think the final build looks better. The color grading in the final build is a little bit more vivid and not as washed out as the E3 version.
Because ubisoft realized that a high end pc has more than enough power to run games as they are made and there is no reason to downgrade them!
You are comparing the wrong build. There are minor downgrades and changes from the E3 2015 build regardless they are negligible .. .. .but still noticeable.
Technically you are not wrong since it was already downgraded by e3 2016, but it still annoys me to see you guys either be careless or stoop low enough to write misleading click-baits.
such as what ? 90% of the time the people who say downgrade don’t know anything about graphics, use horrible comparisons etc. Even in cases where the game was downgraded, eg: The Division, the majority of people were making bad comparisons, talking about non existent features and so on.
Actually, it was not. While the roof tile texture appears to be less detailed as it was completely changed, the PS4 alpha version has better draw distance (notice the distant trees for example). Left is PS4, right is E3 2015.
https://i.imgur.com/wVp7uMv.jpg
You can’t really compare the infantry units in this video as the E3 2015 features the Knight infantry while the PS4 version features the Samurai infantry.
The lighting system appears to be the same (though there is a different TOD that can be easily noticed, which explains the differences in the third ‘gate’ comparison). Throughout the campaign, there are scenes with a similar TOD that look just as good.
Also, due to the awful compression of the PS4 video, you can’t really compare the textures as they appear awful. We’ve already shared images from the game’s final version that show incredible textures for the terrain, grass, trees, etc.
My comment abt draw dist. on the yet to be approved comment is actually wrong. You are right it does seem a bit more detailed on the final build but the rest stands. The title “For Honor has not been degraded at all” is the one I have a bone to pick with, that’s not true. The downgrades may or may not be minor and it might be apples to different species of apples, still some of it is noticeable.